The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee reported out legislation promoting nonstructural alternatives to control flooding and authorize PennVEST to fund high hazard dam repair projects. The bills include:

· House Bill 2539 (Seip-D-Schuylkill) and House Bill 2546 (Conklin-D-Centre) authorizing nonstructural alternatives to control flooding; and

· House Bill 2549 (Siptroth-D-Monroe) authorizing funding for unsafe high hazard dam repairs.

The bills were then referred to the House Rules Committee, which is normal this time of year.

Rep. Bud George (D-Clearfield) serves as Majority Chair of the Committee and Rep. Scott Hutchinson (R-Venango) serves as Minority Chair.

6/13/2008